To: Red Badger
Absolutely astonishing! I worked in the optical networks division of Nortel Networks for a while right before the tech crash in 2000. It was a wild time. The industry was laying cables with 1,000 strands of fiber and we were lighting only a few 10 Gbps DWDM channels on each strand. There was huge unused capacity on the one lit strand. Performance had gone up many orders of magnitude and prices came down a few orders of magnitude. The market got oversaturated very quickly and the whole industry went BOOM after that build-out. Here we are 22 years later and trucks for competing companies are laying last-mile fiber everywhere around Coeur d’Alene, pushing fiber to the home.
Who is going to use petabit networks? For what applications?
3 posted on
10/24/2022 12:52:06 PM PDT by
ProtectOurFreedom
(The “I” in Democrat stands for “Integrity.”)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Who is going to use petabit networks? For what applications?
Porn... porn has been the fastest adopter of all things internet over the past 30 years.
4 posted on
10/24/2022 12:56:57 PM PDT by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
5 posted on
10/24/2022 12:57:13 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
In the early days of Free Republic, when I was surfing along on my 14.4kbps modem and people got pissy at you here if you so much as hot-linked an image (no, seriously, many modems at the time would choke while downloading a single JPEG), I was predicting that at some point in time, we would be able to store all the world's information on a chip the size of a fingernail and that all the movies and music in the world would be able to be streamed to you real time so you never even had to download anything anymore.
It sounded like science fiction at the time and that was only 25 years ago - late 1990s.
9 posted on
10/24/2022 1:00:31 PM PDT by
SamAdams76
(4,353,227 active user on Truth Social)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
“Who is going to use petabit networks? For what applications?”
Download the whole knowledge base of mankind to your home server and live in the wilderness off grid. :^)
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Isaac Asimov
10 posted on
10/24/2022 1:01:55 PM PDT by
BushCountry
(A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
VR based graphics or 8k\16k graphics for everyone.
12 posted on
10/24/2022 1:04:32 PM PDT by
NicoDon
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Who is going to use petabit networks? For what applications? Immersive high-resolution video streaming comes to mind. Gamers are going to love this.
14 posted on
10/24/2022 1:06:25 PM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
(A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Who is going to use petabit networks? For what applications?
= = =
Not for your normal computer communication output.
But for monitoring your every video and audio activity.
31 posted on
10/24/2022 1:29:33 PM PDT by
Scrambler Bob
(My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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